- Oct 14, 2009
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Just joined the group. My name is Steve. I have 3 RIR hens, 1 Black Star hen, 1 Buzzard hen(was supposed to be a BS) and Fred and Snowball my White Silkie couple courtesy of Sunshine Silkies. Hatch date on the 3-1-1 was Feb 25th 2009. They all started laying one at a time in late July and early August and at times I was getting 5 eggs/day So I am pretty sure that all five of the full size hens were laying. I didnt get the silkies until a few weeks ago. Up until this weekend all of the eggs from the hens(except snowball) were brown.
Sunday morning I let them out around 10am to free range for the day. I checked the boxes and there was 1 egg. It was broken and it was white. When I picked it up I noticed that the shell was really thin also. It really reminded me of the first egg or 2 they laid. Tossed it in the compost pile and forgot about it. Monday I got home from work, let the chickens out and gathered the eggs. The was another whith egg in the box with 3 brown ones. At first i thought Snowball had just laid a really large egg but yesterday there was another one and Snowball had laid her egg in the box next door. This time the egg had just a hint of wanting to be brown. Nothing has changed in their food or water and they all free range in the afternoon from about 5:30 until they go in to roost.
Any ideas on this. This inside of these eggs look normal and the yolks are bright yellow-orange like the rest. You dont get that color from the store.
Thanks for the help.
Steve
Sunday morning I let them out around 10am to free range for the day. I checked the boxes and there was 1 egg. It was broken and it was white. When I picked it up I noticed that the shell was really thin also. It really reminded me of the first egg or 2 they laid. Tossed it in the compost pile and forgot about it. Monday I got home from work, let the chickens out and gathered the eggs. The was another whith egg in the box with 3 brown ones. At first i thought Snowball had just laid a really large egg but yesterday there was another one and Snowball had laid her egg in the box next door. This time the egg had just a hint of wanting to be brown. Nothing has changed in their food or water and they all free range in the afternoon from about 5:30 until they go in to roost.
Any ideas on this. This inside of these eggs look normal and the yolks are bright yellow-orange like the rest. You dont get that color from the store.
Thanks for the help.
Steve